Improvement in saddle-trees



J'.Y SHELLY.

SADDLE-TREE. v

N0.17 3,4Z4. l Patente-d Feb. 15.118767.

N. PErERs, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGYON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFIC.

JOHN SHELLY, OF LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO MARTIN J. SLEVIN, OF SAME-PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SADDLE-TREES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,424, dated February 15, 1876; application filed August 11, 1875.

To all whom it may concer-n:

' Be it known that I, JOHN SHELLY, a resident of the city of St. Louis, State ot' Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in'Saddle-Trees, ot' which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being` had to the annexed drawing, making part ot' this specitication, in which- Figure 1 is a plan of' the improved tree, partly covered; and Fig. 2, a side elevation of the tree.

The same letters refer to the same parts in both ofthe figures. I

To cheapen the manufacture of saddles and render them easy in use is the aim ot' the present invention. It also ha-s reference to the construction whereby' the tree can be used in making either a mans or a side saddle.

Referring to the drawing, A represents the tree. B B'represent the side bars thereof,

which are of ordinary shape. Upon these bars is raised a construction, O O, of the peculiar shape shown in Figs. l and 2. Beginning at the cantle D it extends continuously and similarly on either side to the polnmel in front, and bearing Iall along upon the side bars, and constituting a narrow elevated bearing, over which a seat, E, formed ot leather or similar material, is stretched in manner similar to the head of a drum. The part O (l can be formed of suitable material, and, if preferred, ot' a single piece but, as a further im- ]novement, I make the portions F F, termed the belly-pieces, ot' rubber.

An especial advantage oi' the above construction is,'that the 'tree is easily made and the seat readily attached thereto without using any padding. lAt the same time an easy seat is secured, as its only bearing is at its edge where it is attached to the part U C. This also makes the saddle more comfortable to the horse. Further, by reason of the use of rubber in making the parts F F, an elastic bearing is obtained in a part of the seat upon which the thigh of the rider bears the hardest.

A further and important advantage accrues from the peculiar form of the tree it can be inished, as shown, for a mans saddle, or, by

l am aware that in the construction of sidesaddle trees an elevated bearing has been used, and I therefore do not claim such, broadly; but,

Having" described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a saddle-tree in which the cantle, belly-pieces, and pommel (made in one or more parts) form a continuous narrow bearing, whose outer edge is elevated above the side bars from the cantle to the pommel, and which bearing is shaped and extended similarly on both sides of the tree, to be adapted to either a mans or a side saddle, substantially as and for the purpose shown.

2. The combination ot' the side bars B B, cantle D, pommel G, and elastic belly-pieces F F, substantially as and for the purpose vshown and specified.

JOHN SHELLY. Witnesses:

Crus. D. Moonv, SAML. S. BOYD. 

